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I heard Notre Dame as a potential spot for Card a couple months back. They might have a couple guys higher on their board. I hope he gets a gig like that. If he's going through Thamel then he'll probably end up at a big school (as opposed to a place like SMU).

Good catch. So the rate of TDs on kickoffs as a whole would be ~.75%. Teams choosing to return against us was a net positive this year for sure. Injuries just suck. I've also wondered about how fatigue has factored in a couple times. If our D is on the field for 90 plays in a game it can't help to have a bunch of starters running 40+ yard sprints. Not sure if we subbed in those games though.

The actual stat is that ~1 - 1.5% of kickoffs go for touchdowns. In recent years about half of kickoffs go for touchbacks. Our kickoff team is great though - no argument there. That said, I'm still in favor of kicking touchbacks because of injuries. Players are significantly more likely to get injured on return plays. We're playing a lot of starters on kickoffs. I'd be selective about when to try to gain that 4 yard advantage. ETA: Head and knee injuries specifically are more likely to occur on kickoffs and punts.

Why kick it for touchbacks when you can have Roschon end a guy’s will to live inside the twenty?

The defense was greatly improved. All the coaches developed guys and have recruited well. If there’s a change it’ll be to right the wrong of the staff being built for a different coordinator, not because of underperformance. I’d expect it to be one of the DB coaches but I’m not sure which, if it happens at all. Personally I’m hoping that Joseph’s name starts popping up in the carousel.

He's not. I don't believe they have any connections to Texas. Here's the best article I've seen on the deal: https://www.on3.com/college/texas-longhorns/news/bijan-robinson-lamborghini-austin-deal-parternship-texas-longhorns-football-running-back-nil-name-image-likeness/ There's a lot of people with money to burn moving to Austin right now. A single sale is six figures in revenue. Bijan (and other UT players) are some of the biggest celebrities in the city. It makes sense from a marketing standpoint. And apparently it went well enough to catch the attention of lambo hq in Italy. Also I googled the dealership and they have JWhitt listed as a Marketing & PR Intern on the website. So that's pretty neat: https://www.lamborghiniaustin.com/lamborghini-austin-staff-austin-tx#

Sure but a certain highly reputable scout/journalist (and dinner friend of yours) said that he was the next Cam Newton

For me, an early sorting of our defense would be something like this: Returning contributors Studs: Ford, Barron, Murphy, Sweat, Watts Good contributors: Thompson, Sorrell Solid baseline: Taafe I still believe: Crawford, Collins, Gbenda, Broughton, Blackwell Young guys in line for a bigger role: Guilbeau, Brooks, Finkley Young guys and croots Liked what I saw in limited action: Burke, Tapp Might get rotation work: Bledsoe, Ross, Jordan, Bryant True frosh that might get some work: Hill, Vasek, Williams, Muhammad, Mitchell Redshirts: Gullette, Burrell, Spencer, Lefau, Walton, Depth: Bush, Richardson, Coffey, Brockermeyer, Dorbah, J. Johnson Depth but not in a bad way: Brice, Turner-Gooden, Harris, Swanson Lowkey worried they didn't get a single snap: Allen, T. Johnson, Brown

I'm not familiar with him but PFF had him at 70.5 for this year. 84.0 as a pass blocker so that's pretty neat.

Guys on campus should 100% be the priority. But if we take an OL George is a good option. Better than what we were looking at last year.

Also, on Damieon George, he only played in 2 games this year, but he played in 12 games last year including 3 starts. And FWIW PFF graded him at a 65.0 in 268 snaps last year and a 70.2 in 20 snaps this year. Our starters this year were 68.4 - 54.4 - 63.4 - 51.7 - 68.8. George was not thought of well on this recruiting board during that cycle, but I think he would be a good addition. I wouldn't do anything that would rock the boat with our guys on campus though.

Ironically, George >>> Brocks

Plus, the mustard got used for a Pluckers sauce. It's actually pretty good. Bijan Mustardson can continue after Bijan graduates; they'll just need an updated contract The lambo is on a lease. I don't believe they paid Bijan anything, just gave him a lambo to drive. The contract will end as soon as Bijan stops being part of the football team at UT. Then lambo can decide to renew it or not with him. I'm hoping they'll continue giving a couple to UT football players. They already did it with JWhitt so seems they might be prepped for that route

Thanks y'all for the great work you put in. I've been impressed by the foresight every step of the way. Timing has been impeccable First crowdsourced NIL deal for a position group First 501c3 for a position of need, announced right before signing day Other Texas collectives form in time for the portal and baseball season And now that sustainable operations and cooperation with the AD are more important than the public splash, all collectives merge I think the casual fan might be underwhelmed or disappointed that there's no specific mission or $ amount, but this is a big deal. No need to continue giving other schools a target and blueprint. By the way, there's a legitimate case to be made that we're .500 or below and our future is dark without HWH. If Banks doesn't come, we lose our best OL this year and have Karic or Jones at LT. Not only does that degrade the starting OL, it also takes away the jumbo package with Karic at TE that has been so successful this year. And without this OL class, how does our pitch to Arch, Johntay, Baxter, etc. change? It certainly makes our prospects for next season when we lose Bijan and Ro much worse. Sark needs to host y'all for an OV weekend visit to his house and VY steakhouse or something. Also, you know the aggy tears have been flowing when LHF makes you think LonghornFrenzy first.

Lol, yes, you're correct that those excuses didn't affect the competition, because the competition didn't have to face them. OSU and KSU were playing at home. Of course they weren't affected by away crowds. We played a top 5 team at home 8 weeks ago and for the conference title four years ago. How are those generational opportunities?

Card had the deep one to X that bounced off a WVU defender's hand. Also X had the throw to Sanders lol A) There's no benefit to starting Card. Sark opens up the playbook a lot more with Quinn, though he babied him last week. This shouldn't be a discussion unless Quinn is really struggling B) Quinn had to face at least two of the following three factors against ISU/OSU/KSU: really good defenses, away crowds, high winds. None of this come into play this week C) Opportunities like this are generationally rare? Lol no, this is our biggest game in three years, but let's not get carried away here. This is a big game only because it's a step we need to make to get to even bigger games

Sorry if either of these are old news. From OB. Jelani McDonald is going to come on an unofficial this weekend. He'll OV December 16th and decide after that. TCU will probably get an OV too. Deal's playoff game got rescheduled to Friday so he'll OV this weekend.

The recruiters listed on 247 are often not accurate. Pretty sure Bo Davis is doing the heavy lifting in that one.

omg I mixed up the recruiting cycle and calendar year this is possibly the most aggy thing I've ever done corrected version here

I usually don't think you should mess with a classic, but I felt this season called for an update.

Banks + Majors got another one of their DBs on this play too

they really should have gone with mono if they wanted this to be believable after the first week although a mono outbreak in a football team would raise questions

Ketch had this to say on Thursday